“There’s very few people who make it to the top of the game and tonight there’s — again, it is down to three or four or five people who get to have the Song of the Year, the song better than any other song ever this year, the song that from all over the world gets to win this

thing. I can’t read the stuff, so I’m making this up, but it sounds f**king good to me,” he shrugged.

My butt has never clenched so much in discomfort as it did watching Bob Geldof talk at the #ARIAs. Train wreck

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